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... directed to a statement of facts , for the accuracy of which , reference shall be made to the most approved and unquestionable authorities . - Guided by genuine documents , and divested of all prejudice , he has been enabled to complete ...
... directed to a statement of facts , for the accuracy of which , reference shall be made to the most approved and unquestionable authorities . - Guided by genuine documents , and divested of all prejudice , he has been enabled to complete ...
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... directed my course towards a good end , and I was under no apprehension until I arrived where the ship was . It was then clearing out , and I called for a passage . But the master of the vessel got angry and said to me - Do not attempt ...
... directed my course towards a good end , and I was under no apprehension until I arrived where the ship was . It was then clearing out , and I called for a passage . But the master of the vessel got angry and said to me - Do not attempt ...
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... directed by his friend St. German , and continuing in it for a period of nine years , || he derived that knowlege of sacred literature and of spiritual discipline , which afterwards enabled him to proceed as an apostle and to triumph ...
... directed by his friend St. German , and continuing in it for a period of nine years , || he derived that knowlege of sacred literature and of spiritual discipline , which afterwards enabled him to proceed as an apostle and to triumph ...
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... directing his course towards the North , the scene of his former bondage , arrived with his compa- nions at a port in a district now called the barony of Lecale , in the county of Down . Having advanced some distance into the country ...
... directing his course towards the North , the scene of his former bondage , arrived with his compa- nions at a port in a district now called the barony of Lecale , in the county of Down . Having advanced some distance into the country ...
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... directed his course through the whole north - west of the county of Down and the adjacent districts , gaining multitudes of converts in his progress , and laying the proud superstition of the druids . prostrate at the foot of the cross ...
... directed his course through the whole north - west of the county of Down and the adjacent districts , gaining multitudes of converts in his progress , and laying the proud superstition of the druids . prostrate at the foot of the cross ...
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Page 425 - Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 425 - ... after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast...
Page 400 - This order, good brethren, is from our gracious king, and from the rest of our brethren, the fathers and clergy of England, who have consulted herein, and compared the holy Scriptures with what they have done; unto whom I submit, as Jesus did to Caesar, in all things just and lawful, making no question why or wherefore, as we own him our true and lawful king...
Page 166 - That is well said," observed Bonner ; " I see you are no anabaptist. How say you then to the presence of Christ's body and blood, in the sacrament of the altar...
Page 238 - set forth Henry's right to the sovereignty of Ireland in virtue of the Pope's authority, and inculcated the necessity of obeying him under pain of excommunication'. The English were not yet eight years in Ireland, the greater part of the country was still closed to them, but already the Irish were being excommunicated for refusing to become slaves. In Ireland, as in all Catholic countries...
Page 502 - Ireland, and for many other impediments (of which affidavit was made), I could not at the end of five weeks get the records and witnesses brought hither; I therefore begged for twelve days more, that I might be in readiness for my trial, which the Lord Chief Justice refused...
Page 358 - And, lest the writing should perish with the writer, and the work should fail with the workman, I leave behind me parchment for continuing it, if any man should have the good fortune. to survive this calamity, or any one of the race of Adam should escape this pestilence, and live to continue what I have begun.
Page 365 - England and his heirs for ever, and by which grant the people of Ireland owe their obedience to the King of England, as their sovereign lord — it is therefore ordained that all Archbishops and Bishops of Ireland shall, upon the monition of forty days, proceed to the excommunication of all disobedient subjects ; and if such Archbishops or Bishops be remiss in discharging their duty in the premises, they shall henceforth be liable to a penalty of one hundred pounds.
Page 71 - Apostles. For, as I have already said, we are attached to the chair of St. Peter ; and although Rome is great and renowned, yet with us it is great and distinguished only on account of that apostolic chair.
Page 425 - Munster; for, notwithstanding that the same was a most rich and plentiful country, full of corn and cattle, that you would' have thought they should have been able to stand long, yet ere one year and a half they were brought to such wretchedness, as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them; they looked like anatomies of...